So yesterday I found out I achieved a 70 in my dissertation and today I found out that overall I received a DISTINCTION FOR MY MASTERS 😭 I honestly couldn’t be happier 😭 I didn’t even think I was smart enough to do an undergraduate degree and now look what I went and did 🎓
*uterus sheds its lining and REGENERATES itself every month*
“a human organ that can self-regenerate - hmm… that’s not interesting at all, let’s never study this.”
- the medical community -
With ADHD, especially if you were diagnosed later in life, you actually need to remind yourself you have a chronic, incredibly debilitating disability whenever you’re being hard on yourself. Especially if you’re not from wealth or lack support
Lady in blue, "Will student loans be the next misselling scandal?" #BBCQT
Oli Dugmore, "My three year course, £9,000 a year for the tuition, on top of that a maintenance loan, I left uni with £37,500 of debt"
"From the day I was charged RPI interest"
"Since I went to uni in 2012, the amount of interest I have accrued is £32,000"
"Was it missold to me when I was told it would cost me £9,000 a year? Yes"
"On top of that its a regressive system"
"If you're wealthy enough to pay the fees up front, you don't get charged interest - if you're rich enough you don't pay the same as me"
"The government changed the terms of the agreement, I call that loan sharking"
Fiona Bruce, "How else would you pay for university?"
Oli Dugmore, "How did you guys pay for it?"
"The state paid for it, didn't they?"
Fiona Bruce, "They did"
Oli Dugmore, "Good enough for you, good enough for me?"
On my @LBC show last night, NHS nurse Elliot with £100,000 in student debt - who says he’d have to be earning £80,000 a year just to keep pace with the interest he owes. He accrued extra interest during the pandemic because he took time out of studying to help with the Covid response.
And Kieran, a young solicitor who calculated that he’ll have to pay a total of £250,000 on a initial loan of less than £30,000 because the interest keeps going up and up. He pays back £3,500 a year, of which £3,200 is just interest. But his wealthier friends don’t pay a penny because their parents just paid their uni fees for them outright.
“Fair”, @RachelReevesMP? In what world?
If a financial institution sold these loans at this scale and then changed all the terms after the fact it would be a national scandal and someone would be in jail
The next government needs to figure out a way to freeze all interest on Plan 2 student loans. The current situation is egregious and there is no way these were sold properly. Bare in mind it's teenagers entering into these loans as well that will massively affect them for life.
> Wake up: It's dark
> Commute to work: It's still dark
> Lunch break: It's 3°C, windy and raining
> Commute home: It's dark again
Anyone who enjoys this is a masochist.